Do Plants Feel by Cortney Cassidy $6.00 – Non-linear story about plants told through an archive of photographs. /Cars with Stuff on Top by Paul Windle $10.00

Zines & Zine-Related

Straight To Hell #68 $8.00 – Now in it’s 5th decade of publication, this issue of Straight to Hell (aka The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts) features true sex histories/research from STH readers as well as raunchy photos/artwork from contributors. We know what you’re doing tonight!

After vol 1 #1 Van Dyck by MES $5.00

Justice Under God #1 Mar 15 by Justice Undergood $2.00

Serio #2 Social Justice Zine Based In Chicago by Luz Magdaleno and Alvaro Zavala $3.00

Comics & Minis

Escape Plan by Willard Herman $1.00

True Adventures of Jep Comix #4 $2.00

Acknowledgements #4 Mary Shelley by Robert Kelsey $3.50

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

Y The Last Man Book Two by Brian K. Vaughan and friends $19.99

Bone Out from Boneville – Tribute Edition by Jeff Smith $14.99

Other Side of the Wall by Simon Schwartz $9.99

Adventure Time vol 6 by Pendleton Ward and Ryan North $14.99

Art & Design

Banksy in New York $29.95

Camper and RV Humor: The Illustrated Story of Camping Comedy $24.99

Fiction

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link $15.00

Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov $18.95

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Was Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas $22.95

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy $24.00

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh $26.00

Five Hundred Sirens by Jay Shearer $15.00

Know Your Beholder by Adam Rapp $26.00

The Sellout by Paul Beatty $26.00

Act of God by Jill Ciment $24.00

Outer Limits

Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident by Nick Pope & friends $16.99

Music Books

Beats to the Rhyme: A Collection of Instrumental Hip-Hop Records for the Beat Connoisseur by Albert D. Patterson $24.95

Essays

The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson $16.00

Paddle Against the Flow: Lessons on Life from Doers, Creators, and Cultural Rebels by HUCK Magazine and Douglas Coupland $14.95

“Get ready: Kristy Bowen’s major characters in minor films casts our favorite muse du jour in a ‘white-hot, white dress.’ Through poems that are lyrical, irreverent, and a little bit naughty, we discover the swanky, labyrinthine interior of her straight-to-DVD universe: remember, she tells us in ‘movie of the week,’ ‘Everybody loves a victim, especially the blonde, pretty kind.’ Through scathing missives to James Franco and sensual harangues directed at the moon, our wine-stained diva tempts us through vivacious non sequiturs to the ‘poem within a movie within a girl-shaped world’ in all of us.” -Sara Henning, author of A Sweeter Water

“I want to be best friends with the ‘I’ of this book. She’s hilarious. She’s heartbreaking. She’s more than a little bit dangerous. Whether she’s writing about crying on the bus or hiding a knife under the sink, she deals out her words like a card shark—fast, sure, sly. What’s not to love about such a deft performance of wit, skill, and heart?” -Sara Biggs Chaney, author of Ann Coulter’s Letter to the Young Poets

“In Kristy Bowen’s major characters in minor films, language moves like a camera, cutting from image to image, leaving impressions that form intriguing fragmented narratives of love, intrigue, mystery and damage. Populated with both the familiar and the strange, with rabbits and birds as well as whiskey and fire, the journey through the scenes these poems create is a wild and rich ride.” -Donna Vorreyer, author of A House of Many Windows

A writer and visual artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of several book, chapbook, and zine projects includingthe shared properties of water and stars (Noctary Press, 2013) and girl show (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). Her work has appeared most recently in Birdfeast, Diode, and Eratio. She lives in Chicago, where she runs dancing girl press & studio. For more info: kristybowen.net

The LiveWire Lounge (3394 N Milwaukee) asked Quimby’s if we wanted to curate a night at their lounge. And we said yes. So this is what we’re bringing, a themed mix of reading and music with a very specific focus:

Celia Forrest is a writer, director, teacher and actress who was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is a new mother and couldn’t shut up about it if she tried. She is well-known in Minnesota for her work teaching theater to kids and her award-winning turn in Neil Labute’s Fat Pig. In Chicago she is mostly known for her sketch comedy writing and directing, as well for her work on The People’s Republic of Edward Snowden. Celia is also famous in a subset of radical activists as a co-host of Morning Damnit, the morning news and talk show on Q4 Radio, and the weekly program The Celia and Erik Show, which features comedy, commentary and interviews with local artists. Find her on Twitter at twitter.com/thatcelia

Mike “McBeardo” McPadden is the author of Heavy Metal Movies: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, and Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big Scream Films Ever! (Bazillion Points, 2014) and the upcoming Going All the Way: The Ultimate Guide to Teen Sex Comedy Films of the VHS Era (Bazillion Points, 2016). You will love him. More info at mcbeardo.com.

Dan Kelly is the author of Hilaretic. He is not to be confused with the Australian judoka and mixed martial artist Dan Kelly. He occasionally writes for The Baffler and Gapers Block. He blogs at mrdankelly.com/blog.

The Blue Ribbon Glee Club is Chicago’s punk rock a capella glee club, and regularly performs songs by Fugazi, Gang of Four, the Dead Kennedys, the Buzzcocks and more.

$pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution ed. by Audacia Ray, Eliyanna Kaiser & Rachel Aimee (The Feminist Press) $24.95 – Stories from and about $pread, published by and for sex workers, from 2005-2011.

Worst Breakup Ever ed. by Nicki Yowell $4.00 – A Self-Publishers of Chicago (SPOC) anthology. Featuring work from Tony Jeswald , Victoria Harley, Liz Mason, Rachael Zalutsky, Brett Manning, Alex Nall and more. Compzine all about the demise of relationships from the folks of Self-Publishers of Chicago (SPOC). Contains tales of woe ranging from post-coital fish attacks, school dance dumps, ill-timed apartment leases and the urban phenomenon of “ghosting”. If you’ve ever dropped a zero for not loving your favorite late ’90s Keanu Reaves movie, this zine is for you. This dose of catharsis goes well with a box of chocolates and a middle finger for that ex that you just can’t shake. Comics, essays, haikus, illustrations and more all with plenty of high school notebook style scrawlings.

Pray Fuck Drive by Johnny Murdoc $8.00

Proof I Exist #19 by Billy Roberts $2.00

KerBloom #112 Jan Feb 15 by Artnoose $2.00

My Complicated Relationship With Food vol 2 Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths by Zach $1.00

Useless Records #1 $2.00

228 Labels #1 by Joe Cunningham $2.00

Mescaline Story by Karl Noyes & David Ball $2.00 – Form follows function down the rabbit hole in this instructional nonfiction tale about a group of young friends, a spring day in Minnesota, and some happy pink pills of artisinal synthetic mescaline. Contains many trip-tips on what to do, and what to never, ever to do, if & when you find yourself down a shady lane rolling dice with Satan & hunting down The Berzerker. Includes color collages by the author. -GS

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud SIGNED EDITIONS! (First Second) $29.99 – For the same price as non-signed. Comes with a bookplate!

Comics CritComics and Narration by Thierry Groensteen (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Insightful reflections in comics crit about such topics as how the conventions of the medium function, narration in autobiographical comics, rhythm in comics and the relationship of comics to contemporary art. Uses examples from Chris Ware and Crumb, among others. Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form ed. by Hannah Miodrag (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Suggestions for a more nuanced way to interpret comics. Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art ed. by Jane Tolmie (UnivofMiss) $30.00 – Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memoirs in autobiographical comics.

FictionOrigin of the Brunists by Robert Coover (Dzanc Books) $17.95 – The 1966 classic back in print! The survivor of a small twn coal-min explosion is aopted as a prophet by a cult that awaits the apocalypse atop the site of the disaster. The novel thatwon the William Faulkner Foundation Award for Best First Novel and instantly established Robert Coover’s fictional mastery. Coover went on to win fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins (Soft Skull ) $15.95 A “save the rec center” style novel about a dying video store against the big Blockbuster down the street. Like Breakin’ 2, but about a video renting instead of dancing. -LM

The Oyez Review, Roosevelt University’s award-winning literary journal, has been in publication for over forty years. Among other readers relevant to issue #42, Donna Vorreyer will read a selection of her poems including “Compline with a Dream of Folded Arms,” which is also featured in this issue.

Donna Vorreyer is the author of AHouse of Many Windows (Sundress Publications, 2013) as well as six chapbooks, most recently Encantado, a collaboration with artist Matt Kish from Redbird Chapbook (released in April 2015). She has been a repeat nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared in journals such as Sugar House Review, Sou’wester, Rhino, Linebreak, and Cider Press Review. She is an assistant poetry editor for Extract(s), and her second collection is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2016.